I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

…it’s sad. The White House press pool is being given the mushroom treatment; and they know that they’re being given the mushroom treatment. But they don’t want to respond appropriately – which is to say, stop letting Robert Gibbs define what are or are not appropriate questions to ask. Until that happens – and the press corps internalizes the notion that Gibbs and the administration needs them a hell of a lot more than they need Gibbs and the administration – they’ll keep getting the mushroom treatment.

[…] Moe doesn’t see it as funny, …it’s sad. The White House press pool is being given the mushroom treatment; and they know that they’re being given the mushroom treatment. But they don’t want to respond appropriately – which is to say, stop letting Robert Gibbs define what are or are not appropriate questions to ask. Until that happens – and the press corps internalizes the notion that Gibbs and the administration needs them a hell of a lot more than they need Gibbs and the administration – they’ll keep getting the mushroom treatment. […]

“The Mushroom Treatment” isn’t some throwback to 1960s drug movies. Bruce Dern and Russ Tamblyn don’t have cameos. The Urban Dictionary Website (which is sort of like Wikipedia, except that the handshake that it and your comput…

The press is getting what they deserve. After all this time, all this condescension, the lies – most people would be angry as hell, but you listen to these questioners and they sound like timid, apologetic mice. “Sorry Mr. Gibbs, I don’t mean to offend, but you know when you said you cleared that up? I am not so sure you did…” pathetic. Where was Jake Tap Tap?

Like Carter, the press will partially turn on Obama when it gets to the point they can’t be in denial anymore, and have to admit to themselves that the things they were hoping and expecting an Obama Administration to accomplish are going down the tubes due to the administration’s ineptness (and it’s only a ‘partial’ turn, because no matter how bad Barack does over the next two years from a liberal standpoint of getting their agenda passed, the big media will hold their noses and try to push him over the finish line in 2012 against whomever the Republicans put up).